#939406 ITP: ungoogled-chromium -- Web browser

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
PICCORO McKAY Lenz
Date:
2025-11-29 16:44:53 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#939406#5
Date:
2019-09-04 16:31:42 UTC
From:
To:
I REVISED THE CHROMIUM AND CHROME AND SEEMS DOES NTO RESPECT THE
FREEDOM OF THE USERS IN ANY CHANCE AFTER A REVIEW OVER THE UNGOOGLED
CHROMIUM PROJECT..

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian

As LXDE does in the past and today.. it's better that upstream work
hand to hand with the debian itselft..

that's reduced the problems of updating things.. in chromium that are
a very oftyen updated package...

Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com

#939406#20
Date:
2020-08-08 14:18:10 UTC
From:
To:
Severity: wishlist

Owner: Thomas <rt1omas@protonmail.com>

* Package name : ungoogled-chromium

Version : 84.0.4147.105-1.1

Upstream Author : Eloston <eloston@programmer.net>

* URL :https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

* License : BSD-3-Clause

Programming Lang: Python

Description : A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency

I intend to maintain the package that Piccoro has pointed out here as I use this browser on a daily basis and I believe that it is a better alternative to chromium. Chromium itself is still very dependent on Google web services to operate making this very difficult for those who want to use Chromium without the Google aspect to it.

The package currently has a ungoogled-chromium-debian Github link where the original developer has included build files for ungoogled-chromium. I also intend on contacting & assisting the developer in packaging the files for Debian and uploading them to the official Debian archive.The ungoogled-chromium-debian branch contains packages for Debian sid and stable but is sometimes not as up-to-date as the original upstream source.

So far, I plan on maintaining the package on my own but if I do need help I hope that I can reach out to the Debian Chromium Team. I require a sponsor - I have found a developer willing to sponsor the uploads.

#939406#31
Date:
2022-08-17 10:58:33 UTC
From:
To:
Please work on the already existing (and patched!) chromium in the archive instead of adding one additional
chromium-based browser that then also lacks team power. If you need any additional patches on Debian's chromium that are
in ungoogled chromium, make them available in Debian's chromium.

The chromium package might be excluded from bookworm when not enough people care about keeping it secure.

#939406#36
Date:
2024-02-11 15:40:38 UTC
From:
To:
Does that mean that Debian's `chromium` is also "ungoogled"?
That would admittedly make a lot of sense.
I see a directory `ungoogled` in

https://sources.debian.org/src/chromium/121.0.6167.160-1/debian/patches/

but it contains a fairly trivial patch that doesn't do what I expect
"ungoogled" to mean.

If it is indeed, ungoogled, then the package's description should say
so, shouldn't it?  Currently it just says:

    Description: web browser
     Web browser that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable internet
     browsing experience.

     This package contains the web browser component.

which doesn't hint at it being ungoogled at all.


        Stefan

#939406#41
Date:
2024-02-12 20:23:32 UTC
From:
To:
Am 11.02.24 um 16:40 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

I guess you expect the rest of the patch set at
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/tree/master/patches/core/ungoogled-chromium
to be applied. Please ask for that on the chromium package's bug tracker.

That is true, and it is probably not to the extend of ungoogled chromium.
I have just said that Debian's chromium is already patched
and the package maintainers would probably welcome integrating patches
that remove privacy violations.

#939406#46
Date:
2025-04-13 20:18:28 UTC
From:
To:
hi all,

The Debian Chromium team is aware of the ungoogled-chromium
project and has a list of the patches included in the Debian
source:

https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/blob/master/ungoogled-chromium.md

I agree that it would make more sense to work with the Debian Chromium
team rather than create a separate "ungoogled-chromium" package.

Cheers
Boud

#939406#51
Date:
2025-04-13 21:39:09 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Thanks for filing this tracking bug.

I'd encourage anyone who's interested in seeing ungoogled-chromium
support in debian move forward, who also has the time & expertise:
please help update and sort through the list of ungoogled-chromium
patches listed in [2]. I simply haven't had time, as maintaining
chromium and then having to do related backports/fixes of
llvm-toolchain-* and rustc compilers ends up being a lot. You can use
salsa to open a merge request with updates to [2], and then I can handle
adding the useful patches to the chromium debian package.

Thanks,
Andres